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26 Stranded Bits of Trivia That We Luckily Circled Back For

May 17, 2025

Shame on the fact finders around here who pressured us into leaving without these facts. Sure, we were getting a little low on fuel, but all we wanted was one last lap around the search area.

Lo and behold, there they were! Please let them hydrate and call their families real quick before reading them. They’ve been through a lot!

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Tyrese Gibson

TYRESE GIBSON CLAIMED WILL SMITH GAVE HIM $5 MILLION FOR HIS CUSTODY BATTLE. In a 2017 Instagram rant, Gibson claimed that his estranged wife was pregnant, that he's broke, and that Smith gave him $5 million. A couple of weeks later, the actor admitted he made it all up and blamed his outburst on antidepressant medication. CRACKED.COM

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The Vice President

The vice president of the US wasn't always the president's running mate. Before they added the 12th amendment, it was whoever got the 2nd most votes in the election. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Manuka Honey

There are turf wars in New Zealand over Manuka honey. CRACKED.COM Due to the cost of the honey going up 20 fold in the last few decades, there are now turf wars with thefts, poisoning of hives and vandalism on the increase. — Source

23

Lego

Lego is the world's largest tire manufacturer. The company produces over 318 million tires every year- or about 870,000 tires a day. CRACKED.COM — Source

22

Nitrous Oxide

There is a violent Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) Mafia that travels to music festivals. GRACKED.COM The Mafia carries nitrous tanks through concert sites, selling balloons for $5 to $10, which are then huffed. They can bank more than $300,000 per festival, minus expenses. — Source

21

Katy Perry

Katy Perry carries around locks of Taylor Swift's and Miley Cyrus' hair. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

20

Pigeons

PIGEONS WERE FOUND TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN ARTWORKS BY PICASSO AND MONET. CRACKED This was proven in a real scientific study. — Source

19

Civil War

There was a Civil War veterans' reunion in 1938 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was the 75th anniversary of the battle, and about 1800 vets from both sides attended - the youngest was 88 years old, while the oldest was 118 (so he claimed, anyway). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Money

Lots of modern money is not vegan. 24 countries' currency uses a polymer derived from tallow (beef fat). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Gender-Bending Badasses

Gender- Bending Badasses Deborah Sampson was the only woman to get a full pension for her involvement in the American Revolution. She pretended to be a man and was part of the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment for more than two years before they found her out. CRACKED — George Graham/Wiki Commons
National Women’s History Museum

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Alcohol

CRACKED MEN'S ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION ALSO AFFECTS PREGNANCY. Studies have found men who drink leading up to conception are more likely to have children with birth defects. — FXQuadro/Shutterstock,
Natalia Deriabina/Shutterstock
Men, Whatever You Do, Don't Raise a Glass to Trying to Have a Baby

15

Uncle Chen

CRACKED A 50-YEAR-OLD CHAINSMOKES THROUGH AN ENTIRE MARATHON. Uncle Chen, a 50 year old Chinese man, ran the Xin'anjiang Marathon in three hours and 28 minutes while chain-smoking cigarettes. This is not the first time he has done this; he was also photographed running the 2018 Guangzhou Marathon and the 2019 Xiamen Marathon while smoking cigarettes. 20 A — CBS / Running Magazine

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Blasphemy

The last person to be executed in Great Britain on a charge of blasphemy was a 20-year-old. In 1697, a Scottish student named Thomas Aikenhead was accused of referring to theology as ill-invented nonsense while convers- ing with friends at the Uni- versity of Edinburgh. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography / Wikipedia

13

Iceland

Until 1987, there was no TV broadcast in Iceland on Thursdays. CRACKED.COM The idea behind the decision was to reserve Thursdays as a day for socializing. As a re- sult, many Icelanders born before 1987 joke that they were most likely conceived on a Thursday. — Guide To Iceland

12

Despicable Me

Kristen Wiig and Ken Jeong are in both movies. Wiig plays Miss Hattie in the first film and Lucy in the sequel. Jeong plays a Talk Show Host in the first, and returns in the second film as Floyd Eagle-san. Despicable Me 1&2 CRACKED.COM — Source: ScreenCrush

11

Elon

Wernher von Braun wrote a book which imagined that human colonists on Mars would be led by a person called Elon. CRACKED.COM Von Braun was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and, later, a pioneer of rocket space technology in the United States. 27% — Business Insider

10

Jeremy Strong

Succession star Jeremy Strong pranked Frank Langella on a movie set. It was on The Trial of the Chicago 7, where Langella played a judge - Strong put a remote-controlled fart machine behind the judge's stand. CRACKED.COM — Source

9

Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull played himself in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show for a while. The job was easy (he just had to ride around the arena once a week) and the pay was good, but he got tired of it pretty soon anyway. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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8

Evil Dead

Ellen Sandweiss cut up her feet on twigs while filming Evil Dead. She was wearing nothing but a nighgown, and it was freezing cold - and twigs shredded her bare feet. She didn't act after that movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: IndieWire

7

Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani CRACKED.COM Stefani's father was a marketing executive for Yamaha. Her dad even got her backstage to meet Sting when she was 13. — Source: Rock N Roll Hall of Fame

6

YouTube

A mafia drug dealer was caught because he became a YouTuber. After hiding out for years in the Dominican Republic, Marc Feren Claude Biart decided to open a YouTube channel to share his cooking skills with the world. Of course, he never showed his face - but he neglected to hide his distinctive tattoos, leading authorities straight to him. — More: 5 Crazy Ways Cold Cases Were Solved

5

Star Wars

Theed Royal Palace in The Phantom Menace was where Nazi Germany surrendered. That's Caserta Palace in Italy, and it's the place where the Allied High Command for the Mediterranean was established in 1943. In 1945, a delegation from Germany signed their country's surrender there. — Source: 7 Terrifying Places (Where Movies Were Filmed)

4

Sylvester Stallone

In 1971, Sylvester Stallone sold his dog, Butkus, for $40 to buy food. After selling the script for Rocky, he bought him back for $15,000. NOW YOU KNO — Bored Panda

3

Email

In the first few decades after email was first introduced, people believed that it could be detrimental to the users' IQ. A British study in 2005 even

2

Necks

Washing your hair in a salon can give you a crippling stroke. It's called beauty parlor syndrome, and it happens when your neck artery gets torn bec

1

Headphones

During the late 1800's, headphones were mostly used by telephone operators and had little to do with music at all. The headphones rested on the operat

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